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'Allo 'Allo! - The Complete Series Six

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Has the economy got you down? Have politics got your blood pressure up? Will one more idiotic "reality" show on TV send you round the bend?

Time for another dose of 'Allo 'Allo!--the magnificent nonsense that proves the old adage that laughter is the best medicine. And series six, like series five, four, three, two, and one, will leave you whooping with laughter, no matter how many times you have seen its variations on the same theme. The maids and Lieutenant Grueber will find the podgy Rene irresistible; Edith will sing off-key; her bed-ridden mother will complain "Will nobody come to the aid of an old woman?"; Helga will bellow "COME IN!"; the black-leathered Herr Flick and Von Smallhausen will hatch their fiendish plans to no avail; the chicken-helmeted (and -hearted) Capitano Bertorelli will make-a mistake-a; Michelle of the Resistance will "say this only once;" Sergeant Crabtree will murder the "French" language, and the thick-headed British airmen will still not get away from Nuvion, that small village in occupied France where everyone collaborates with everyone else (I am passing over the "Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" by von Klomp and the "Cracked Vase with the Big Daisies" by van Gogh.).

The running gags are what make 'Allo 'Allo so much fun, and the gags in this delightful series have been running a long way for a long time. And despite the fact that the show hits all the various national and social stereotypes, the humor is good-natured; even the sexual puns and innuendo, completely lacking in subtlety, are hysterically funny and devoid of the patent crudity that infects so many "modern" American sitcoms.

So, in the words of Sergeant Crabtree, witch this twee-dosk sot in the oovening and you will be sure to have a good moaning the nayxt doo.

A new German general, a new Le Clerc (son of the old Le Clerc, played by now-deceased Jack Haig), and a new female counterfoil to Arthur Bostrom's character (the French-speaking English gendarme) join the regular cast in this installment. Improbable schemes to return the two English airmen seem to culminate, but as usual, something goes awry at the last moment. These episodes end with another attempt at long-distance communications via a "homing podgeon" and a truly strange wedding ceremony between Edith's Maman and Le Clerc.

I love these shows they are so witty and so not your typical programing we have today. Thank you Amazon for bringing these or making it avaiable to us in the USA..

FABULOUS SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very funny and easy to watch again and again! A MUST HAVE for everyone. Hope there are more installments!!!!!!

I have not had a chance to watch the above but afterwatching series one to five I am sure it is going to be as good as all the rest, which has given me lots of laughs

After the huge (and outstanding) 4-disk Series 5, the sixth series of Allo Allo is short and sweet. Monsieur LeClerc is gone, but now his brother shows up to put the moves on Fanny. Series 6 ends with their outrageously funny in-bed wedding(during which the groom falls asleep).

New characters appear to the regular series cast.A new German General,the brother of Roger Leclerc due the Jack Haig death,a new British intelligence girl that helps stupid agent Crabtree.The two British airmen atill in Nouvion despite the efforts of Resistance to send them to England.New plots and situations happens as Gestapo officers Flick and Von Smallhausen interfere with German army.Hope to see new seasons soon.

I became hooked on Allo' Allo' when shown on PBS so was delighted when it began to be released on DVD. Now I can watch and howl with laughter anytime I want. I had known there were two "jumps" in the storyline as shown on PBS in the inland section of the Pacific Northwest. Upon receiving series six however I discovered the whole series hadn't been aired.
Brace your ribs to ache and throw a few cushions on the floor in case you roll out of your chair.

"Allo Allo!" Has been around since 1982 and has just recently become available in the USA on a decent media.

Basic story is of a café owner René Artois (Gorden Kaye); this is in France during the WWII occupation. He must balance dealing with the local Germans, the Gestapo, the good Resistance, the commie Resistance, having affairs with his female help, dealing with his wife and mother-in-law.

In series six the fun does not stop. However you see some different people. A few of the originals are left. Fun as this is, one can tell that they are running out of ideas and in desperate effort to keep up the energy go a little over the deep end even for "Allo Allo." And surprise Edith (Carmen Silvera) can really dance.

One nice thing about this series is that they place the name next to the actor at the end of each episode. Most of the actors are well known out side of this series. I was shocked however to find that Gestapo Herr Otto Flick (Richard Gibson) Played British Capt. Newman in Ken Follett's "The Key to Rebecca" (1985) and completely changed his accent.

'Allo 'Allo - The Complete Series Seven

Where has this been all my life?! (Or at least since the '80s.) Twenty years after this British series aired I was introduced to it by my parents. I bought the entire series for their anniversary and we proceeded to watch it from beginning-to-end over the course of about three weeks. The humor is as fresh and hilarious as the best of the best, and we were howling at the zany antics in the story lines.

Set in WWII in a French cafe owned by René Artois (whose stray left eye is funny all by itself), the story line throughout involves trying to smuggle two British airmen back to England. The town is occupied by Germans, who are some of René's best customers. Michelle, the leader of the French Resistance, appears in every episode in the cafe's back room to announce yet another cock-a-mamy plot, saying, "Listen very carefully, for I will say this only once."

A stolen painting called "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" is coveted by the Germans, René, and by Hitler himself, and René hides it in a knockworst sausage which hangs in his storeroom. He plans to sell it after the war to live on, but some of the German officers have the same idea. Copies are made and stuffed into more sausages, and that's only the beginning.

The Resistance installed a radio in the flooring below the bed of René's aging mother-in-law, and a piss-pot serves as the speaker. When they have to send a message to England they tilt up the foot of the bed, much to the protests of the mother-in-law, and René says into the microphone, "'Allo, 'allo, thees ees Blackhawk speaking."

There is a brilliant device used to differentiate French and English: the actors portraying the French speak English with a French accent, and those portraying Brits speak a form of pigeon English. A Brit impersonating a French policeman says such things as, "Good moaning. I have bad nose." René rolls his eyes and says, "Who taught you how to speak French?"

No one is spared. The French are sex-crazy, the Germans are rigid idiots, and the Brits are complete buffoons, all making for a most entertaining series. Highly recommended!